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  • Environment

    The biodiversity crisis and the environmentalist left

    13 May 2015, by Alan Thornett

    In this presentation I want to advance four propositions that may be controversial:

    • That biodiversity is the planet’s most valuable resource. It is also its most abused and threatened.

    • That the biodiversity collapse we are witnessing today—the greatest mass extinction of species for 65 million years—is the most fundamental aspect of the whole environmental crisis.

    • That most left environmentalists—including Marxist and socialist environmentalists—have failed to adequately recognise or address it.

    • That this represents a serious failing in the overall approach of the left, including the Marxist left, to the environmental crisis.

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  • Ecosocialism

    Environment: The foundations of revolutionary eco-socialism

    3 May 2015, by Daniel Tanuro

    The concept of eco-socialism is based on a double paradoxical note: the solution to the “ecological crisis” due to the capitalist mode of production necessitates a response of a socialist type, whilst the environmental balance sheet of “actually existing socialism” is catastrophic. I will briefly develop these two elements and then present some foundations of an eco-socialist aggiornamento as it is conceived inside the “International Eco-socialist Network”. I hope to bring forward evidence that eco-socialism is something more than a new label on an old bottle: a necessary alternative adapted to the challenges of our times.

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  • Intellectuals and the “The New Cold War”: from the Tragedy to the Farce of Choice

    20 April 2015, by Ilya Budraitskis

    Observers speak of the “New Cold War” as a self-evident and incontrovertible reality. Already in the spring, the new contours of international politics, demarcated by sanctions and mutual rhetorical incursions, were fully recognized by the broadest segments of the public in Russia, Europe and the United States—including those who were very far from decision-making processes—as a return to the familiar and frightening principles of the second half of the twentieth century.

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  • Russia

    Who Is Behind the "Trotskyist Conspiracy"?

    16 April 2015, by Ilya Budraitskis

    Speaking at a meeting of his All-Russia People’s Front a couple days ago, Vladimir Putin said, “Trotsky had this [saying]: the movement is everything, the ultimate aim is nothing. We need an ultimate aim.” Eduard Bernstein’s proposition, misquoted and attributed for some reason to Leon Trotsky, is probably the Russian president’s most common rhetorical standby. He has repeated it for many years to audiences of journalists and functionaries while discussing social policy, construction delays at Olympics sites or the dissatisfaction of the so-called creative class. “Democracy is not anarchism and not Trotskyism,” Putin warned almost two years ago.

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